Matter Quotes

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

If you're going off a 90-foot jump, you can't say: 'Oh, I don't want to do this now.' You're going no matter what.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many.

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

Events are not a matter of chance.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

Anybody that thought that I tried to protect the president has forgotten that I asked for the expansion of the Monica Lewinsky matter.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.

You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

My Food Network shows, 'Emeril Live' and 'Essence of Emeril,' are not in production right now, but I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily leaving Food Network. I have a lot of television still in me. I enjoy teaching people, so it's just a matter of time before I do something new.

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.